DailyDirt: Creating Virtual And Artificial Brains

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We're a long way away from creating an artificial intelligence from scratch that can perform general tasks. But plenty of researchers are learning some interesting things about AI while they build massively parallel computers or grow microbrains from little clumps of cells. Here are just a few projects where some synthetic brains are being hand-built by people.

Re: Let's hope...

Victim Of The Brain

Anyone interested in ruminations about brains, natural versus artificial, thinking and “soul”, might like to view this mix of fact and fiction from 1988, including discussions with Douglas Hofstadter, a bit of fantasy about Daniel Dennett, and a story by Stanislaw Lem: Victim Of The Brain.